Conventional wisdom is that Quinn, who is openly gay, will have a hard time appealing to the city's religious Jews. So the image of Quinn in a room full of them is, to me at least, an unusual one.

Related: One of the men in this picture Albert Friedman, the editor of Ditzeitung, a Yiddish-language newspaper which edited a a White House photograph, for religious reasons, to remove Hillary Clinton. That's him, back left, with his hand over his mouth.

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Also in attendance were City Councilman Brad Lander, Rabbi Yeruchim Silber of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council, Alex Rapaport, director of the Masbia soup kitchen, and radio host Zev Brenner, among others.